Re: Dead Batteries

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Dibyendu Majumdar once stated:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 21:10, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Ditto for exposing metatables.
> >
> >   So what's the issue with exposing metatables?  Python has its own form of
> > operator overloading.
> >
> 
> It is not the concept of meta information but that the mechanism is
> exposed. So now Lua is forever tied to supporting the mechanism.

  So in an ideal world, how would you have defined/implemented it?  You
*have* to expose *something* for it to be useful.

  -spc